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(Top) 1 Highest-grossing films (U.S.) 2 Events 3 Awards 4 1983 films 4.1 By country/region 4.2 By genre/medium 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Film debuts 8 See also 9 References 10 External links

1983 in film

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The following is an overview of events in 1983 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[edit]

The top ten 1983 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1983^[1]
Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Return of the Jedi	20th Century Fox	$309,306,177
2	Terms of Endearment	Paramount	$108,423,489
3	Flashdance		$92,921,203
4	Trading Places		$90,404,800
5	WarGames	United Artists	$79,567,667
6	Octopussy	United Artists	$67,893,619
7	Sudden Impact	Warner Bros.	$67,642,693
8	Staying Alive	Paramount	$64,892,670
9	Mr. Mom	20th Century Fox	$64,783,827
10	Risky Business	Warner Bros.	$63,541,777

Events[edit]

February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York City.
May 25 - Return of the Jedi, the final installment in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year.
Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman makes her film debut in the Australian movie Bush Christmas.
Brainstorm, the final film of screen star Natalie Wood, is released, 2 years after her death.
October - Frank Price resigns as president of Columbia Pictures and is replaced by Guy McElwaine.

Awards[edit]

Category/Organization	41st Golden Globe Awards January 28, 1984		37th BAFTA Awards March 25, 1984	56th Academy Awards April 9, 1984
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	37th BAFTA Awards March 25, 1984	56th Academy Awards April 9, 1984
Best Film	Terms of Endearment	Yentl	Educating Rita	Terms of Endearment
Best Director	Barbra Streisand Yentl		Bill Forsyth Local Hero	James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment
Best Actor	Tom Courtenay The Dresser Robert Duvall Tender Mercies	Michael Caine Educating Rita	Michael Caine Educating Rita Dustin Hoffman Tootsie	Robert Duvall Tender Mercies
Best Actress	Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment	Julie Walters Educating Rita		Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actor	Jack Nicholson Terms of Endearment		Denholm Elliott Trading Places	Jack Nicholson Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actress	Cher Silkwood		Jamie Lee Curtis Trading Places	Linda Hunt The Year of Living Dangerously
Best Screenplay, Adapted	James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment		Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust	James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment
Best Screenplay, Original	James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment		Paul D. Zimmerman The King of Comedy	Horton Foote Tender Mercies
Best Original Score	Giorgio Moroder Flashdance		Ryuichi Sakamoto Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Bill Conti The Right Stuff (film) Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman Yentl
Best Original Song	"Flashdance... What a Feeling" Flashdance		"Up Where We Belong" An Officer and a Gentleman	"Flashdance... What a Feeling" Flashdance
Best Foreign Language Film	Fanny and Alexander		Danton	Fanny and Alexander

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushiko), directed by Shohei Imamura, Japan

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard,

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ascendancy, directed by Edward Bennett, United Kingdom

The Beehive (La Colmena), directed by Mario Camus, Spain

1983 films[edit]

By country/region[edit]

By genre/medium[edit]

Births[edit]

January 2
- Kate Bosworth, American actress
- Anthony Carrigan, American actor
- Kristen Hager, Canadian actress
January 9 - Kerry Condon, Irish actress
January 13 - Julian Morris, British actor
January 16 - Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
January 17 - Ryan Gage, English actor
January 21 - Svetlana Khodchenkova, Russian actress
January 24
- Frankie Grande, American actor, singer, producer, television host and YouTube personality
- Lee Toland Krieger, American director and screenwriter
January 28 - Angel Manuel Soto, Puerto Rican film director, producer, and screenwriter
February 4 – Hannibal Buress, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
February 7 - Elina Pähklimägi, Estonian actress
February 16 - Agyness Deyn, English actress and model
February 18
- Evan Jonigkeit, American actor
- Wrenn Schmidt, American actress
February 20
- Jessie Mueller, American actor and singer
- Bronson Webb, British actor
February 21
- Eoin Macken, Irish actor
- Mélanie Laurent, French actress
February 22 - Taraka Ratna, Indian actor (died 2023)
February 23
- Aziz Ansari, American actor, writer, producer, director and comedian
- Emily Blunt, English actress
February 27 - Kate Mara, American actress
March 1 - Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress and director
March 4 - Julieta Zylberberg, Argentine actress
March 7 - Greta Lee, American actress
March 9 - Bobby Campo, American actor
March 10
- Rafe Spall, English actor
- Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
March 11 - Lucy DeVito, American actress
March 12 - Ron Funches, American actor, comedian and writer
March 14 - Johnny Flynn, British actor, musician and singer-songwriter
March 15 - Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
March 18 - Ivan Kolesnikov, Russian actor
March 20 - Michael Cassidy, American actor
March 21 - Justin McDonald, British actor
March 29 - Ed Skrein, English actor, director, screenwriter and rapper
March 31 - Ashleigh Ball, Canadian singer, musician and voice actress
April 1
- Ellen Hollman, American actress
- Matt Lanter, American actor
April 4
- Eric André, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and musician
- Amanda Righetti, American actress
April 6 - Diora Baird, American actress and former model
April 7 - Kyle Labine, Canadian actor
April 10 - Jamie Chung, American actress and former reality television personality
April 15 - Alice Braga, Brazilian actress and producer
April 19 - Victoria Yeates, English actress
April 21 - Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
April 22 - Francis Capra, American actor
May 3 - Ari Magder, Canadian actor (died 2012)
May 4
- Brad Bufanda, American actor (died 2017)
- Jesse Moss, Canadian actor
May 5 - Henry Cavill, British actor
May 6
- Adrianne Palicki, American actress
- Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
May 8 - Elyes Gabel, English actor
May 11 - Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
May 12 - Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor, writer, and director
May 14 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress, writer, and director
May 17 - Ginger Gonzaga, American comedian and actress
May 25 - Chelse Swain, American actress
May 28 - Megalyn Echikunwoke, American actress
June 1 - Sylvia Hoeks, Dutch actress
June 2 - Yuliya Snigir, Russian actress and model
June 10 - Leelee Sobieski, American retired actress
June 14 - Louis Garrel, French actor and filmmaker
June 16 - Olivia Hack, American actress
June 19 - Aidan Turner, Irish actor
June 23 - Miles Fisher, American actor, comedian and musician
June 24 - John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino actor
June 28 - Scott Haze, American actor and filmmaker
June 30 - Angela Sarafyan, Armenian-American actress
July 6
- Christine Firkins, Canadian former actress
- Gregory Smith, Canadian actor, writer and director
July 8 - DeVaughn Nixon, American actor
July 10 - Golshifteh Farahani, Iranian actress
July 18 - Cara Gee, Canadian actress
July 20 - Martin McCann, Irish actor
July 23 - Olamide Faison, American actor and singer
July 28 - Dhanush, Indian actor
August 1 - Inga Salurand, Estonian actress
August 3 - Mamie Gummer, American actress
August 4
- Nathaniel Buzolic, Australian actor
- Greta Gerwig, American director, writer, and actress
August 6 - Landon Pigg, American singer-songwriter and actor
August 7 - Brit Marling, American actress and screenwriter
August 8
- Guy Burnet, British actor
- Trina Nishimura, American voice actress
August 10 - Bonnie Piesse, Australian actress and singer-songwriter
August 11
- Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
- Tatá Werneck, Brazilian actress, television presenter and comedian
August 14
- Mila Kunis, actress
- Lamorne Morris, American actor, comedian and television personality
August 16 - Dominik García-Lorido, American actress
August 19 - Mike Moh, American actor and martial artist
August 20 - Andrew Garfield, English actor
August 23 - Annie Ilonzeh, American actress
August 24 - Antonio Campos, American film director
August 29 - Jennifer Landon, American actress
September 9 - Zoe Kazan, American actress and screenwriter
September 21
- Scott Evans, American actor
- Maggie Grace, American actress
- Joseph Mazzello, American actor
September 25 - Donald Glover, American actor, singer, comedian, writer, producer and director
October 3 - Tessa Thompson, American actress
October 5
- Jesse Eisenberg, American actor, director, producer, and writer
- Shelby Rabara, Filipino-American actress and dancer
- Noot Seear, Canadian actress
- Noah Segan, American actor
October 9 - Spencer Grammer, American actress
October 10 - Layke Anderson, British director and former actor
October 16 - Andrew Santino, American stand-up comedian and actor
October 17 - Felicity Jones, English actress
October 19 - Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish actress
October 24 - Katie McGrath, Irish actress
October 28 - Joe Thomas, English actor, writer and comedian
October 29 - Johnny Lewis, American actor (died 2012)
November 7 - Adam DeVine, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and singer
November 8 - Chris Rankin, New Zealand-born British actor
November 18 - Julia Ducournau, French film director and screenwriter
November 15 - Sophia Di Martino, English actress
November 19 - Adam Driver, American actor
November 24 - Gwilym Lee, British actor
December 8 - Utkarsh Ambudkar, American actor, singer and rapper
December 10
- Patrick Flueger, American actor
- Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
December 13 - Satya Bhabha, British actor
December 17 - Stef Dawson, Australian actress
December 20 - Jonah Hill, American actor, filmmaker, and comedian
December 21 - Steven Yeun, American actor
December 23
- Eva Ceja, American actress and film producer
- Joe Dinicol, Canadian actor

Deaths[edit]

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	8	Gale Page	69	US	Actress	They Drive by Night Knute Rockne, All American
	15	Shepperd Strudwick	75	US	Actor	All the King's Men A Place in the Sun
	19	Robert Carson	73	US	Screenwriter	A Star Is Born Beau Geste
	24	George Cukor	83	US	Director	The Philadelphia Story My Fair Lady
	27	Louis de Funès	68	France	Actor, Director	La Grande Vadrouille L'avare
	28	Billy Fury	42	UK	Singer, Actor	That'll Be the Day Play It Cool
	30	Joan Valerie	71	US	Actress	Blazing Sixes Free, Blonde and 21
February	10	Eduard Franz	80	US	Actor	The Ten Commandments The Story of Ruth
	13	Marian Nixon	78	US	Actress	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Winner Take All
	19	Charles Bluhdorn	56	Austria	Studio Executive
	19	Alice White	75	US	Actress	The Girl from Woolworth's Showgirl in Hollywood
	21	Marie Mosquini	83	US	Actress	Short Orders 7th Heaven
	25	Tennessee Williams	71	US	Screenwriter	A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
	27	Ruth Dunning	71	UK	Actress	It's a Great Day Hoffman
March	7	Robert Bray	65	US	Actor	My Gun Is Quick Bus Stop
	8	William Walton	80	UK	Composer	Hamlet Henry V
	9	Faye Emerson	65	US	Actress	The Mask of Dimitrios Nobody Lives Forever
	14	Maurice Ronet	55	France	Actor	Elevator to the Gallows Purple Noon
	16	Arthur Godfrey	79	US	Actor	The Glass Bottom Boat Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
	27	James Hayter	75	UK	Actor	Oliver! Night and the City
	28	Walter Reisch	79	Austria	Screenwriter	Gaslight Titanic
April	4	Buster Crabbe	75	US	Actor	Flash Gordon Jungle Man
	4	Gloria Swanson	84	US	Actress	Sunset Boulevard Sadie Thompson
	5	Bronisław Kaper	81	Poland	Composer	Lili Mutiny on the Bounty
	11	Dolores del Río	77	Mexico	Actress	Ramona Bird of Paradise
	15	Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.	67	Mexico	Actor	The Brave One Villa!!
	21	Walter Slezak	80	Austria	Actor	Lifeboat Ten Thousand Bedrooms
	23	Selena Royle	78	US	Actress	Joan of Arc Night and Day
	26	Shirley Deane	70	US	Actress	Educating Father Undercover Agent
	26	Vaughn Taylor	73	US	Actor	Psycho Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
May	1	Joseph Ruttenberg	93	Ukraine	Cinematographer	Brigadoon Gigi
	5	John Williams	80	UK	Actor	Dial M for Murder To Catch a Thief
	8	Fay Spain	50	US	Actress	Al Capone God's Little Acre
	22	Art Cruickshank	68	US	Special Effects Artist	Fantastic Voyage The Black Hole
	23	George Bruns	68	US	Composer	The Jungle Book One Hundred and One Dalmatians
	23	Eve Gray	87	UK	Actress	Murder at Monte Carlo Midnight
	25	Sydney Box	78	UK	Producer, Screenwriter	The Seventh Veil A Girl in a Million
	28	John C. Howard	52	US	Film Editor	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Blazing Saddles
	30	Burnett Guffey	78	US	Cinematographer	Bonnie and Clyde From Here to Eternity
June	12	Norma Shearer	80	Canada	Actress	The Women Marie Antoinette
	22	David MacDonald	79	UK	Director	Dead Men Tell No Tales The Moonraker
	23	Jonathan Latimer	76	US	Screenwriter	The Glass Key The Big Clock
	30	Herbert Baker	62	US	Screenwriter	Dream Wife Murderers' Row
July	1	Charles G. Clarke	84	US	Cinematographer	Miracle on 34th Street Hello, Frisco, Hello
	5	Harry James	67	US	Musician, Actor	Two Girls and a Sailor The Opposite Sex
	9	Robert Dawn	61	US	Makeup Artist	Marnie Black Sunday
	15	Eddie Foy Jr.	78	US	Actor	Yankee Doodle Dandy Bells Are Ringing
	16	Samson Raphaelson	89	US	Screenwriter	The Shop Around the Corner Heaven Can Wait
	17	Byron Kennedy	33	Australia	Producer	Mad Max Mad Max 2
	20	E. Preston Ames	77	US	Art Director	An American in Paris Airport
	23	Georges Auric	84	France	Composer	Roman Holiday The Wages of Fear
	25	Jerome Moross	69	US	Composer	The Big Country Rachel, Rachel
	29	Luis Buñuel	83	Spain	Screenwriter, Director, Actor	Un Chien Andalou Belle de Jour
	29	Raymond Massey	86	Canada	Actor	Arsenic and Old Lace East of Eden
	29	David Niven	73	UK	Actor	The Pink Panther The Guns of Navarone
	30	Lynn Fontanne	95	UK	Actress	The Guardsman The Magnificent Yankee
August	1	Peter Arne	64	UK	Actor	Straw Dogs Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	3	Carolyn Jones	53	US	Actress	King Creole Last Train from Gun Hill
	5	Judy Canova	69	US	Actress	Louisiana Hayride The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
	26	Mike Kellin	61	US	Actor	Midnight Express Sleepaway Camp
	28	Jan Clayton	66	US	Actress	The Showdown This Man's Navy
	29	Simon Oakland	68	US	Actor	Psycho West Side Story
September	15	LeRoy Prinz	88	US	Choreographer, Director	Show Boat Yankee Doodle Dandy
	16	Henry Grace	76	US	Set Decorator	Gigi North by Northwest
	27	Ben Carruthers	47	US	Actor	Shadows The Dirty Dozen
	30	William Elliott	49	US	Actor	Coffy Night of the Lepus
October	5	Rafael Bertrand	66	Cuba	Actor	The Professionals Isle of the Snake People
	8	Joan Hackett	49	US	Actress	Only When I Laugh The Last of Sheila
	10	Ralph Richardson	80	UK	Actor, Director	Doctor Zhivago The Heiress
	11	William Hornbeck	82	US	Film Editor	A Place in the Sun It's a Wonderful Life
	14	Paul Fix	82	US	Actor	To Kill a Mockingbird Giant
	15	Pat O'Brien	83	US	Actor	Some Like It Hot Angels with Dirty Faces
	17	Vittorio Nino Novarese	76	Italy	Costume Designer	Cleopatra Cromwell
	18	Barbara Karinska	97	Ukraine	Costume Designer	Joan of Arc Hans Christian Andersen
	22	Paul Hardwick	64	UK	Actor	Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar
November	?	Eleanore Whitney	66	US	Actress	Rose Bowl Blonde Trouble
	8	Robert Agnew	84	US	Actor	The Heart of Broadway The College Hero
	15	John Le Mesurier	71	UK	Actor	The Moon-Spinners The Italian Job
	18	Marcel Dalio	83	France	Actor	Sabrina To Have and Have Not
	22	Michael Conrad	58	US	Actor	The Longest Yard They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
	28	Johnnie Davis	73	US	Actor	Hollywood Hotel Cowboy from Brooklyn
	28	Christopher George	52	US	Actor	El Dorado Midway
December	2	Fifi D'Orsay	79	Canada	Actress	Those Three French Girls Going Hollywood
	5	Robert Aldrich	65	US	Director	The Dirty Dozen What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	8	Slim Pickens	64	US	Actor	Dr. Strangelove Blazing Saddles
	13	Leora Dana	60	US	Actress	Some Came Running 3:10 to Yuma
	17	Hal Pereira	78	US	Art Director	Vertigo Breakfast at Tiffany's
	21	Rod Cameron	73	Canada	Actor	Requiem for a Gunfighter Santa Fe Passage
	22	Charles Lloyd-Pack	81	UK	Actor	if.... Dracula
	28	William Demarest	91	US	Actor	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	29	Janet Webb	52	UK	Actress	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Joseph Andrews